“So lastly. As to the arrangement of _domestic concerns_, will interfere as little as need be, and will never meddle either in the choice or dismissal of the servants, and will be careful never to find with them unnecessary fault. “These rules and regulations I will read over the first day of every month, so long as it shall please God to spare me, and will make them matter of most serious prayer. “Should I see fit to make any additions to the above, will still never destroy _this_ identical paper, but keep it as exhibiting my views previous to marriage, and as a witness against me in future life, should I deliberately violate them. “I write these rules in my college rooms on the 20th of May, 1811, being the day on which I complete the 27th year of my age, and being also the last of my remaining in Cambridge. “GEORGE MORTIMER.” TO THE REV. J. ARMSTRONG. Wellington, April 10th, 1812. My very dear Friend, I CANNOT describe the feeling of regret which the receipt of your last letter occasioned, and I sit down, with depressed spirits, to dictate an answer. There is something exceedingly gloomy in the recollection that one of the dearest friends I have on earth, is about to depart to a place where there is no human probability of our ever meeting; and that he should depart also without my being permitted to look him in the face, to clasp his hand, and to bid him a parting adieu. I feel truly grieved at the circumstance, and the more so, as I had expected that you would have been detained on shore longer than the time fixed on for your departure, and consequently that you would have had some little spare time to pay us a farewell visit. * * * * * *